Polaroid photograph of author Howard Engel, taken as part of an annual Mystery Night event at the Library held on May 3, 1996. The photograph is signed by Engel.

Black and white photograph of author and professor David Laing Dawson. Includes a printed biography stamped with "Bradford Public Library" pasted onto the back. Likely included as part of an annual "Mystery Night" event at the Library held in 1992, which the subject participated in.

The back reads: "DAVID LAING DAWSON | David Laing Dawson was born in 1941 in Victoria, British Columbia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria, he hitch-hiked through Europe before entering the University of British Columbia Medical School. Mr. Dawson performed part of his residency in Canada and part in Cambridge, England. | He spent five years travelling through Northern Ontario as a consultant to mental health services, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. | He is the author of Last Rites (Macmillan, 1990) and, most recently, Double Blind (Macmillan, 1992). In addition to his fiction, he has written many academic articles on topics as schizophrenia, and is the owner of NIDUS, a microcomputer company. | Mr. Dawson lives with his wife and two children in a century-old farmhouse outside Hamilton, Ontario."

Polaroid photograph of author Eric Wright, taken as part of an annual Mystery Night event held at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on May 3, 1996. The photograph is signed by Wright.

Polaroid photograph of author John Brady, taken as part of an annual Mystery Night event held at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on May 3, 1996. The photograph is signed by Brady.

Black and white photograph of author John Lawrence Reynolds, taken by "H. Miller." Includes a printed biography stamped with "Bradford Public Library" pasted onto the back. Also on the back is a label identifying the subject and the photographer. Likely included as part of an annual "Mystery Night" event at the Library held in 1992, which the subject participated in.

The back reads: "JOHN LAWRENCE REYNOLDS | John Lawrence Reynolds was born in Hamilton, Ontario where he attended McMaster University. Reynolds has had a variety of careers: advertising, freelance feature writing, and film writing and direction. His first novel, The Man Who Murdered God, introduced readers to no-nonsense Detective Joe McGuire and won the Arthur Ellis First Novel Award. His other McGuire mysteries include the critically acclaimed And Leave Her Lay Dying and Whisper Death. He lives in Burlington, Ontario."

Black and white photograph of author and journalist Alison Gordon. Printed label pasted to the back identifies the subject, the photographer Henri Fiks, and the date as Spring 1988. Likely included as part of an annual "Mystery Night" event at the Library in 1992, which the subject participated in.

Polaroid photograph of author James Norman, taken as part of an annual Mystery Night event held at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on May 3, 1996. The photograph is signed by Norman.

Polaroid photograph of author Maureen Jennings, taken as part of an annual Mystery Night event held at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library on May 3, 1996. The photograph is signed by Jennings.

Polaroid photograph of the guest authors who participated in the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library's annual Mystery Night on October 1, 1993, posing with a prop noose during the event. They include: John Lawrence Reynolds, John Brady, Jack Batten, John North, Betsy Struthers and Leslie Watts.